Long Beach Scuba Show 2010

The long beach scuba show was quite busy today, and many vendors reported good sales. Underwater photography booths were some of the most crowded. U/W Photography Guide Editor Todd Winner and myself took some time to photograph some of the booths. Photos by Todd Winner.

Solmar V booth, with owner Jose Luis Sanchez on the left. The Solmar V has an unbeliveable special now on boats to Socorro Island (about $1000 off), only good if you purchase before May 31st -for travel during the winter months.

Keri Wilk, Mrs. Wilk and Scott Gietler. Reefnet showed off their latest subsee adapter for supermacro photography, among other products.

Jim Harlan, owner of Uncommon adventures

Truk Odyssey liveaboard, Clifford Horton on the left.

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Truth Aquatics, manager Chris Callahan-Dudley on the right. The truth aquatics boat is in long beach for the entire week, and are running some unbelievable specials if you want to dive Catalina or the Oil Rigs this week.

Ryan Canon, at the Reef Photo booth, in a rare moment where he's not surrounded by people.

Staff from the Reef and Rainforest booth.

Larry Speaker, General manager of the Peter Hughes Liveaboard fleet.

Eric Bowman, captain and owner of the Peace Boat, one of my favorite boats to the northern Channel Islands.

The olympus booth showing off the Olympus E-PL1 cameras and housings.

Chris Parsons at the Nauticam booth. Nauticam is coming out with a Canon T2i underwater housing soon. They also had a nice small dome port on their Canon 7D housing, for the Tokina 10-17mm fisheye lens.

Yap's Manta Ray Bay hotel, with CEO Bill Acker on the right.

Lissenung island resort in Kavieng, Papua New Guinea, Dietmar Amon on the left, with Angelique Amon.

Island Dreams travel booth. While owner ken kneicek was speaking, his capable staff was manning the booth.

Habitat Curacao resort, which is on Curacao, one of the ABC islands near Bonaire. My speech put the staff to sleep.

Mike Luzansky of H2o Photo pros, with Joseph Holley of marine visions. H20 Photo Pros recently bought Marine Visions.

The girls of Miss Scuba.com, with Szilvia Gogh in the center.

Dive Papua New Guinea booth, with Chet Moore on the left.

Bonica shows off their latest underwater video system.

Bilikiki liveaboard, which dives the Solomon islands.

Tim Ratcliffe, the President of Big Blue dive lights and video lights.

About Australia Diving

Ark Royal Maldives dive yacht & spa.

Norma Alonzo of Aquatica underwater housings

Dave and Terry from Ultralight Control Systems

A new underwater tripod Ultralight is working on

Booth of the Nai'a liveaboard, Alexx edwards on the left

Kona Honu divers

Mark from Kungkungan Bay, Lembeh

Jack's diving locker in Kona, home of the Pelagic magic dive

Hamanasi booth, from Belize

Karim Hanza from Hollywood Divers at the Halcyon booth

Peter Hughes has a new venture, Divencounters, with a boat in the Galapagos

Diana Heaton from Explorer Ventures

Buddy Dive, Bonaire

Truth Aquatics boats, in Long Beach - offering great dive specials for this week!

Scott Gietler with Alberto Reija from Dive Damai, a liveaboard in Indonesia

Scuba Club Cozumel Booth

Clay Wiseman at the Pindito Booth

Rod Klein with the Arenui liveaboard staff

Larry Connor at the Aggressor Booth

Scott Gietler and U/W Photography Guide editors Todd Winner and Kevin Lee

U/W Photography Guide editors Randy Harwood, Todd Winner and Kevin Lee

OCUPS and LAUPS members steal a mermaid from another booth

Judy Carlson at the Jujee Beads booth

New DC1200 camera from the SeaLife booth

See you all next year!